From: Felipe Contreras Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 01:10:07 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git_remote_helpers: remove little used Python library Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <23afa908bb2e21779ea96da8c149dcc43aa72eda.1378570768.git.john@keeping.me.uk> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 11:19 AM, John Keeping wrote: > When it was originally added, the git_remote_helpers library was used as > part of the tests of the remote-helper interface, but since commit > fc407f9 (Add new simplified git-remote-testgit, 2012-11-28) a simple > shell script is used for this. > > A search on Ohloh [1] indicates that this library isn't used by any > external projects and even the Python remote helpers in contrib/ don't > use this library, so it is only used by its own test suite. > > Since this is the only Python library in Git, removing it will make > packaging easier as the Python scripts only need to be installed for one > version of Python, whereas the library should be installed for all > available versions. For the record, there was a user of this: https://github.com/msysgit/git/tree/v1.8.1.msysgit.1/git_remote_helpers However, in the latest msysgit master it seems the git-remote-hg helper is gone, I don't know if by mistake or what. Johannes Schindelin made many claims about it being more complete and what not, but who knows what actually happened. -- Felipe Contreras